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Prokofiev Symphonic poem: Dreams; SNO/NEEME JARVI
7.11* Grondahl Concerto for trombone and orchestra
CHRISTIAN LINDBERG (trombone)
BAMBERG SO/LEIF SEGERSTAM
7.30 News
7.35 Ravel La Vallee des cloches ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
7.41* Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
7.54* Rachmaninov Three Russian Songs, Op 41
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS/
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
8.08* Grieg Lyric Suite, Op 54 GOTHENBURG SO/NEEME JARVI Records
Holmboe and Rosenberg Vagn Holmboe is the most substantial Danish composer of his time. He has always followed his own star, irrespective of fashion, and his music exhibits a continuity of thought and elevation of feeling that find eloquent expression in his 11 symphonies and 20 string quartets.
Holmboe Lauda anima mea
YOUNG ACADEMIC CHOIR,
COPENHAGEN/NILS
MILLER Nottumo for wind, Op 19 (1940) DANISH WIND QUINTET
Rosenberg Lento for strings (1956)
ROYAL SWEDISH CO/MATS ULJEFORS
Holmboe Symphony No 7, Op 50 DANISH RSO/JOHN FRANDSEN. Records
String Quartet No 12 in E flat, Op 127
VEGH QUARTET
Sandor Vegh (violin) Sandor Szbldy (violin) Georges Janzer (viola) Paul Szabo (cello) Record
Ruth Dyson plays her personal choice of music on the harpsichord. anon La Bounette; La Doune cella; Shy myse (from the Mulliner Book)
Purcell A New Ground
John Blow Suite in D minor; Ground in G
Thomas Arne Sonata No 3 Richard Jones Suite No 1 Herbert Howells Dyson 's Delight; Hughes's Ballet
Presented by Susan Sharpe.
Offenbach Overture: Le Mariage aux lanternes LPO/Jean Martinon
Cimarosa, arr Benjamin Oboe Concerto in C Heinz Holliger (oboe) I Musici
Vaughan Williams
Incidental music: The Loves of Joanna Godden
Philharmonia/Ernest Irving
Dvorak Serenade in E for string orchestra Bavarian RSO/Colin Davis
Ravel Sheherazade Elly Ameling (soprano)
San Francisco SO/Edo de Waart Tchaikovsky Ballet:
The Nutcracker: Act 2 RPO/Andre Previn
(Records)
live from the BBC Concert Hall, London. ANGELA BROWNRIDGE (piano) Gershwin Sixteen Song Arrangements (Nos 1-8)
Copland Four Piano Blues Gershwin Sixteen Song
Arrangements (Nos 9-16); Three Preludes
Barber Excursions
• TICKETS: available from the Ticket Unit, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Jean Pougnet (violin), Frederick Riddle (viola), Anthony Pini (cello)
Dohnanyi Serenade in C, Op 10
Berkeley String Trio
(Mono record)
for Ash Wednesday, live from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
Responses (Ebdon)
Psalm 51 (Allegri, ed Guest)
First lesson (AV): Daniel 9, w 3-19
Antiphon: Non in solo pane
Canticles: Third Service (Byrd)
Second lesson (av): Hebrews 3, v 12 to 4, v 13
Anthem: Salvator mundi (canonic setting) (Tallis)
Hymn (EH 77): Lord Jesus, think on me
Organ voluntary: Fantasia in C minor (BWV 562) (Bach)
JOHN GOUGH (piano)
Ireland Chelsea Reach
(London Pieces); Sea Idyll
(first broadcast performance)
Song of the Springtides (Sarnia); The Towing Path; Amberley Wild Brooks. BBC Wales
On the first day of Lent, Roger Nichols visits some wild and lonely places.
Jonathan Steinberg meets Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss the relationship between his roles as linguist and as political activist.
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London.
The third of four concerts given by the Philharmonia Orchestra led by Bradley Creswick, Philharmonia Chorus, Michael Collins (clarinet) Heinz and Ursula Holljger (oboe and harp)
Debussy: Premiere rapsodie, for clarinet and orchestra
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 1 conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
7.55* Letter from Warsaw
Writer Ryszard Kapuscinski reflects on current developments in the Polish political and cultural scene.
8.15* Lutoslawski: Double concerto for oboe, harp and chamber orchestra conducted by The Composer
Roussel: Symphony No 3 in G minor, Op 42 conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Six conversations in which biologist Lewis Wolpert invites distinguished scientists to consider what they do.
2: 'It never crossed my mind to engage in anything except the practice of science.'
Certain families seem to breed great scientists. Avrion
Mitchison, Professor of Zoology at University College, London, is one of three brothers, all of whom are eminent biologists. The sons of writer Naomi Mitchison , they had a physiologist as a grandfather and the formidable geneticist J.B.S. Haldane for an uncle. Professor Mitchison reflects on his upbringing and the influences which shaped his career.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers, perform music by Lassus, Byrd, Tallis and Victoria in Derby Cathedral.
(BBC Pebble Mill)
Tchaikovsky
String Quartet No 2 in F Symphonic poem: Fate
